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If the craft-beer community in Fort Lauderdale has a town square, it is on the couple of hundred feet that separate the ultra laid-back Riverside Market and Café and its new offspring across the street in Riverside Park, Craft Beer Cartel.

It is a place one of the owners of the two beer stops, Julian Siegel, calls “a judgment-free zone,” where an $8 billion mogul can sit anonymously on a couch and offer slices of his pizza to a stranger seated next to him, where a college kid “who doesn’t even know who the mayor is” might be lounging next to the mayor, where folks mystified by craft beer are welcome.

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